Delivery Practice Manager - Application Modernization, AWS Professional Services

About the role

The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking an experienced Delivery Practice Manager (DPM) to join our ProServe North America Delivery team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you'll manage a team of ProServe Delivery Consultants while supporting AWS enterprise customers through transformative projects. You'll leverage your IT and/or Management Consulting background to serve as a strategic advisor to customers, partners, and internal AWS teams.

Responsibilities

• Building and managing a high-performing team of Delivery Consultants
• Collaborating with Delivery Consultants, Engagement Managers, Account Executives, and Cloud Architects to deploy solutions and provide input on new features
• Developing and overseeing the implementation of innovative, forward-looking IT strategies for customers
• Managing practice P&L, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery of customer engagements
• Driving business development initiatives and exceed customer satisfaction targets

About the team

AWS is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field
• Experience in IT consulting/management with IT Transformation in a customer-facing role
• 8+ years of IT and/or Management Consulting, or 3+ years of people leadership experience
• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
• Experience leading application architecture/design/modernization projects, including cloud-based solutioning (AWS or equivalent), with AI and automation

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Associate level certification or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Experience in project management including resource planning, managing schedules, reporting project status and prioritizing tasks
• Experience managing P&L
• Experience building strategic relationships with stakeholders, including communicating and collaborating across teams and functions
• Experience identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing opportunities across a wide spectrum of customer engagement levels
• Experience building and maintaining C-level client relationships
• Advanced technology degree or AWS Professional level certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) preferred